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A new Web tool helps companies see just who has access to their personal information online. Released this week, NotInMyBackyard Diggity is free to anyone to use, and sweeps popular sites such as PasteBin, YouTube and Twitter, along with cloud storage sites like Dropbox and Google Docs, to uncover caches...

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The long overdue BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 update may finally be arriving in February, if RIM follows through on its latest promise. According to a post today by RIM’s Developer Relations team, the update will be available next month, packing the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps feature that allows Android...

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A gold "antenna" used to enhance an oscillating electric field. The gray material is vanadium oxide, which transitions from an insulator to a metal. The field is most strongly enhanced in the gaps in the antenna, seen as white fuzz. Kebin Fan (image) and Mengkun Liu/Mario D'Amato, eds. Most...

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As we were wandering through the Atlanta meet-up last week we stumbled upon a charming young man wearing a glove studded with circuit boards and embroidered with what looked like silver thread. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that it was a wild homegrown glove made by a pair...

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Nokia’s design chief Marko Ahtisaari discussed the direction of future Lumia Windows Phones in an interview with The Guardian, hinting at NFC and wireless charging. Ahtisaari has been at the helm of Nokia’s design team since 2009, during which the company developed the Nokia N9, Nokia Lumia 800, and the...

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Android users finally have a way to show up their iPhone-toting, Siri-using counterparts. With Sonalight Text by Voice, a new Y Combinator-backed startup, you can perform entirely hands-free texting. And by hands-free, I mean you don’t have to push a button, tap the screen, or perform any other actions that...

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In case you missed it on the Google Web Toolkit Blog, check out this HTML5 port of Quake II. (Yep, that is a browser pushing 30 frames per second)For more info, read the full post on the GWT Blog. By Stephanie Liu, Google Developer Team...

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Despite China's ongoing sexual revolution, pornography is still illegal. Under Chinese law, anyone found to be producing and distributing obscene material can get three years in jail. The country requires many pornography censors to find and censor content considered obscene, and it's not always easy work. 70-year-old Liu Xiaozhen is...

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Over the past several months, Facebook has been testing and rolling out new features for Facebook Credits - a virtual currency that collected and exchanged users' real-world money for on-site credits that could be used in many of the site's applications and social games. Since its launch in May 2009,...

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HTC's executive exodus has continued following the departure of Chief Operating Officer (COO) Matthew Costello. Bloomberg reports that Costello leaves his position after less than three years at the company, and will be replaced by Fred Liu, who will expand his role as president of engineering and operations. Costello...

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Mobile game developer Pocket Gems is throwing their hat in the game publishing ring, announcing today that they are publishing three indie-developed games in the coming weeks. The first three developers that Pocket Gems is partnering with are dreamfab, Twyngo, and we.R.play. Dreamfab’s runner genre title Chasing Yello will be...

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One of the most nervewracking and tedious parts of developing a Web site is making sure that it is safe from data theft and other security breaches. Taipei-based startup Lucent Sky‘s mission is to make cyber security easier for developers. The company says its software CLEAR is the first commercially...

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There’s one less challenger trying to unseat veteran vacation destination TripAdvisor from its digital throne, as the company today announced the acquisition of upstart Wanderfly. The buy is part of TripAdvisor’s master plan to get more hip to the social times. In June, the legacy online travel company released...

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So, how could Apple (AAPL) “revolutionize” the television? How about by providing full three-dimensional projections in your living room? StreetInsider reports that Morgan Stanley analysts Katy Huberty and Jerry Liu have outlined some possibilities for what features an Apple HDTV could deliver based on patents the company has filed over the...

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What would you do if your adult son was playing video games all day instead of looking for work? Well, one Chinese father resorted to desperate measures when he reportedly hired in-game hitmen to attack his son whenever he logged on to his favorite game, according to the People’s Daily....

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Typically, a CEO likes to downplay bad news and say it's going to have no real impact on a company's business. Not Elon Musk! For some reason, the Tesla CEO wanted to exaggerate the damage of the New York Times' bad review of the Model S. In an interview with...

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There were quite a few interesting companies presenting their ideas at the Launch Festival in San Francisco this week. These were the startups that struck me. (I only attended the first day of the conference.) For the purposes of this story, “interesting” means that they caught my eye. It’s not...

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Symantec has released a security patch for its pcAnywhere application, declaring it now safe to use again. The patch follows Symantec’s warning last week for all users to disable the product after the company discovered that the source code had been stolen back in 2006, meaning users were at greater...

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Wanderfly, a travel recommendation search engine, re-launched its service Wednesday with a whole new site. The company is doing away with details like hotel prices and instead offering picture-heavy travel guides for cities. Wanderfly’s new site is full of visual travel guides that include restaurants, hotels, and places of interest. Guides are...

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On Friday, the state-run China Central Television broadcast a two-hour execution special covering the final moments of four foreign drug traffickers convicted of murder. The incident has sparked wide debate across China and beyond, reports the LA Times, with some questioning the legality of the broadcast. "This carnival on...

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Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, has become the latest company to back Mozilla's Firefox OS and is developing more than five devices running the mobile operating system for its customers.The Taiwanese manufacturing giant is working on the devices as part of a new partnership with Mozilla to...

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Bowen Liu / Apple Now that Apple’s found itself at the forefront of the fight to improve labor conditions abroad, it might as well lead it. To that end, it has reportedly agreed to invest in manufacturing partner Foxconn’s effort to create a better, safer work environment for its employees....

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Yesterday, the flash sales site Fab.com sued one of its competitors, Touch of Modern, alleging copyright infringement, trade dress infringement, and a number of related charges. PandoDaily has heard exclusively from both Fab CEO and co-founder Jason Goldberg, and Touch of Modern co-founder Dennis Liu. As with most legal cases,...

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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Lego just made an announcement that will have geeks around the world salivating: Beginning in September, the company will release a 1-foot-tall Star Wars Ewok...

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Apple today released its latest Mac OS X Lion update with version 10.7.3 that also includes Safari 5.1.3. The update brings several bug fixes for improved performance and compatibility. It also adds several new languages and RAW image file support for new cameras. Specifically with bug fixes, the updates resolves...

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Chinese PC maker Lenovo has continued its impressive rise after posting record fourth quarter earnings of $205 million on $9.36 billion in revenue and achieving profitability in its smartphone division for the first time. Gross profit was $1.1 billion and basic earnings per share were $1.99. Lenovo managed to grow...

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It's hard for Apple to keep his meetings secret when he's photographed at every turn Cook at an iPhone factory. Photo: Bowen Liu/Apple Inc. via Bloomberg The quality of the photos coming out of Tim Cook's China trip improved significantly when Apple (AAPL) assigned a professional photographer to document its CEO's...